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The idea that tips are based on price in general is weird. It only makes sense to me if I think about them less as compensation, and more as a power play. Given
by gizmo686 3y ago
The idea that tips are based on price in general is weird. It only makes sense to me if I think about them less as compensation, and more as a power play. Given the history of tipping in the US (where it didn't gain traction until emancipation, where it became the way to pay some former slaves), this power play reading seams plausible.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Given the history of tipping in the US (where it didn't gain traction until emancipation There isn't great evidence for this. There was a burst of anti-tipping laws in the 19th century as aristocratic Americans imitated the Tudor English where modern tipping originated. It only became endemic in America during Prohibition, when a lack of alcohol-based income and the, ahem, two-way desire for favors, increased.